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Private Number (1936)

06/05/1936 Drama, Romance 1h 20m
65%
User
Score
6.7/10

Overview

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

Gene Markey

Writer

Roy Del Ruth

Director

William M. Conselman

Writer

Cleves Kinkead

Story

Top Billed Cast

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Ellen Neal

Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor

Richard Winfield

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Thomas Wroxton

Patsy Kelly

Patsy Kelly

Gracie

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey

Perry Winfield

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Mrs. Frisby

John Miljan

John Miljan

Sam Stapp

Marjorie Gateson

Marjorie Gateson

Mrs. Maggie Winfield

Joe E. Lewis

Joe E. Lewis

Smiley Watson

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on January 4, 2025

Down on her luck "Ellen" (Loretta Young) arrives at "Winfield Manor" seeking a position. She's completely unqualified, but butler "Wroxton" (Basil Rathbone) takes a bit of a shine to her and so she gets a job anyway. Indeed, fairly swiftly she is the personal maid to the lady of the house - but it's the son "Richard" (Robert Taylor) who really catches her eye, and she his. What can they do though - she's a mere servant and he is from the bluest of New York blood? Well they pretend it's Elizabethan times and marry in secret, but that's not their biggest one of those and when the intensely jealous "Wroxton"" finds out, he proceeds to make things distinctly awkward for the couple and for his family. With the odds stacked against them, and misunderstandings galore going on, it's going to be to...

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